On Wednesday Moscows Sovremenik Theater announced that The Gin Game, which starred acclaimed starlet Liya Akhedzhakova, would not be performed.
This effectively ended the actresss profession at the theater, which she joined in 1977.
Akhedzhakova is a renowned Soviet and Russian starlet of movie and stage, who has performed in more than 50 movies, including her well-known role of the secretary Verochka in Office Romance.
Her profession at The Sovremenik Theater and other venues was similarly illustrious.
Over the years she has actually gotten dozens of awards including Theater Star, Peoples Artist of the Russia, Order For Merit to the Homeland, and 2 Nika Awards.
She has been similarly celebrated as a human rights activist who has actually consistently spoken up against abuses of civil and human rights, consisting of versus the law forbidding adoption of Russian children by America residents.
She has actually safeguarded independent media, such as the original NTV television channel and TV Rain.
In 2013, she was granted a prize from the Moscow Helsinki Group for the defense of human rights by means of culture and arts.
She has been a strong and vocal critic of the Russian addition of Crimea and the war waged by Russia versus Ukraine.
In early February of last year she accompanied other theatrical associates to protest against the imposition of standard values in Russian theaters.
Her function in Rinat Tashimovs play First Bread in 2021 was highly slammed by Russian military and veteran companies for literally spitting into the souls of all generations of Russian veterans.
Lidiya Fomina, the head of the Moscow branch of the Russian Cultural Workers Union, informed the platform news.ru that although Akhedzhakova was no longer performing, she had not been fired; she would still get a monthly base pay of 50, 000 rubles (about $675).
In another post on the same platform, Fomina was priced quote saying that she supported the choice of the Sovremenik Theater, given that in life you need to pay for whatever.
The [theater] director warned me that I would not be carrying out in the repertory, the 84-year-old actress stated.
This was the demand of some angry letter-writers ...
Im sitting here weeping.
I get it.
Iknowwhowroteandwhoorganizedit.
Butnothingcanbedone.